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How games can inform, educate and raise awareness

Using fun elements such as challenges, goals and rewards, games are playing a significant role in learning, lifestyle management and disease awareness.

The battle to reduce road deaths

In the move to a more sustainable and safer future, tackling road accident injuries and fatalities will require a more concerted effort.

The ‘scamdemic’ affecting everyone

Cyber scams are rising globally, targeting the vulnerable, especially youth. Understanding tactics and regional efforts is key to a safer cyberspace.

Violence, victimhood and the collapse of civilian protection

The Responsibility to Protect was supposed to ensure states care for their people — or else. In Gaza, this hard-won principle lies in tatters.

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The empty slogan of ‘Never again’

A new UN doctrine was supposed prevent genocide and other atrocity crimes. It never worked.

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Australia’s moment to take on modern slavery

Fifty million people worldwide are trapped in modern slavery, more than half of them in the Asia-Pacific. New laws are forcing greater efforts to stamp it out.

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Calling out modern slavery

A crisis affecting 50 million people around the world is coming into clearer view.

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Why can’t Indonesia let go of child marriage?

Indonesia’s child marriage rate remains high, driven by poverty and tradition. Preventing it means dealing with its deep cultural and socio-economic roots.

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Getting it wrong on disability rights

Societies don’t just fail to accommodate disability — they can be actively disabling in themselves.

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Law and order in Australia has a blind spot: human rights

A ‘tough on crime’ political culture tends to bring the same solution to every crisis: harsher laws. That’s a problem.

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Bangladesh’s battle between democracy and autocracy

The brutal crackdown on student protesters revealed the totalitarian aims of the prime minister and the resilience of belief in democratic freedoms.

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How Malaysian women are driving legislative change

Malaysia’s move to amend citizenship laws marks progress for gender equality, but the non-retrospective nature raises concerns.

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Expanding refugee protection for a changing climate

Current refugee and human rights law principles still apply when climate change and disasters amplify the risk of displacement.

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Is it time for Australia to pass a national Human Rights Act?

Parliament has the power to enshrine human rights protections in federal law. Proposals are on the table.

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How games can inform, educate and raise awareness

The battle to reduce road deaths

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Violence, victimhood and the collapse of civilian protection

The empty slogan of ‘Never again’

Australia’s moment to take on modern slavery

Calling out modern slavery

Why can’t Indonesia let go of child marriage?

Getting it wrong on disability rights

Law and order in Australia has a blind spot: human rights

Bangladesh’s battle between democracy and autocracy

How Malaysian women are driving legislative change

Expanding refugee protection for a changing climate

Is it time for Australia to pass a national Human Rights Act?

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